Course Outline

Yoga for Trauma

Thursday 10th, Friday 11th, Saturday 12th October 2019, 12.00-6pm

A three-day training for yoga teachers, counsellors, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals.
Learn practical and accessible tools that you can use with groups and individuals to alleviate trauma and symptoms of PTSD, stress, anxiety, addiction and other mental and emotional imbalances. Practical sessions of chair yoga, restorative yoga, mindfulness practices and gentle movement will combine with theory sessions so you understand the science of these practical applications through the latest findings in neuroscience and medical studies. Ciara Cronin is director of teacher training at the YogaRoom. She works in private practice as a mindfulness-based psychotherapist. She also trains therapists and counsellors, and works with groups teaching yoga and mindfulness for trauma. In the past three years she has worked in Dublin, Northern Ireland and Palestine educating yoga teachers and mental health professionals, and teaching group sessions, in yoga and mindfulness for trauma.
Cost: €280.
Counts as 20 hours CPD.
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Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training

Part One: Wednesday 16th to Sunday 20th October 2019

Part Two: Wednesday 6th to Sunday 10th November 2019
First Irish Prenatal Teacher Training Programme Certified by Yoga Alliance (www.yogaalliance.org). This fully accredited professional training is open to yoga teachers and health professionals. Currently processing applications for October 2019 start.
For bookings and more details visit https://yoga.ie/training/pregnancy.
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Restorative Yoga Teacher Training

Learn to teach Restorative Yoga to groups and individuals competently and compassionately. You will understand the important therapeutic applications of restorative yoga and why it is an essential component of a well-rounded yoga practice. Restorative yoga is a powerful practice that transforms stress, regulates emotional imbalances, improves immune function, digestive function, memory and fertility. On this training there will be plenty of practical sessions of restorative yoga combined with theoretical understanding of the latest findings in neuroscience and recent medical studies, which validate the ancient teachings of yoga, meditation and mindfulness to reveal the enormous physical and emotional benefits of restorative yoga. Ciara holds a Masters Degree in Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy. She is Director of the YogaRoom teacher trainings. She is in private practice as a psychotherapist and has taught therapists and counsellors internationally on the therapeutic applications of mindflness and yoga. An ERYT500, her restorative yoga combines her experience of meditation and mindfuless and draws from Judith Hason Lasater and the Iyengar tradition, as well as restorative yoga teacher trainings she attended with Sudha Carolyn Lundeen from the Kripalu institute and Yin yoga with Sarah Powers. Cost €280. For bookings contact (01) 2196666 or e: [email protected]
Counts as 22 hours CPD.
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Certified First Aid Course

Emergency First Aid

November 2019
This one-day course is offered and Certified by the Irish Red Cross. An important life skill and essential as a caring health professional. This course is aimed at yoga teachers, or anyone interested in being able to respond to an emergency medical situation if it should arise. There will be particular emphasis on injuries and critical care relevant to yoga teacher or fitness/ health work.
Modules Covered: Intro to First aid, Casualty assessment, Heart Disease, stroke, CPR and choking on adults, Wounds and bleeding, altered Levels of consciousness, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Burns, and Poison.
Counts as 8 hours Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Students will receive a Irish Red Cross Certificate valid for three years.
Cost: €140
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Mindfulness Intensive 2020

Friday 28th February to Sunday 1st March 2020

Hours: 12.00pm - 6pm
This weekend will focus on the common traditional roots of yoga and mindfulness.
- Understand the therapeutic benefits of mindfulness practices based on the most recent scientific findings.
- Enjoy practice sessions of different mindfulness meditation practices and techniques from the yogic and Buddhist traditions. (Including sitting, moving and breath awareness practices.)
- Be introduced to the ancient teaching texts that reveal philosophical origins of yoga and mindfulness practice.
- Become aware of the subtle body anatomy as it relates to yoga and mindfulness: the five koshas of the energy bodies and the chakra system.
An understanding of the mindfulness, as it is understood and taught in both the Buddhist and yogic traditions, can support and resource us as teachers in structuring learning programmes that introduce yoga and mindfulness practices to our students.
The findings of neuroscience in the last twenty years are responsible for the massive popular acceptance of mindfulness. The empirical evidence from the many studies that have now been done will be taught to understand the effects and benefits of embodied movement and mindfulness practices on the body, the nervous system, the brain, the hormones, emotions and in our relationships. The studies offer fascinating insights that support what the traditional wisdom traditions have known for thousands of years.
Students will gain a thorough understanding of subtle body anatomy as it relates to yoga and mindfulness. Mindfulness and yoga practices must move in a grounded way from the physical to the subtle, including and transcending each level of awareness in an integrated way. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the five koshas of the energy bodies, the chakra system and the nadis offer maps to the territory of the subtle layers of the self.
We will consider the key philosophical texts related to mindfulness practice; the Sattipathana Sutras and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Other key Buddhist and Yogic principles will provide the philosophical underpinnings to practice modalities, including the Eight Limbs, the Eightfold path, the Four Noble Truths, and the Brahma Viharas. We will also study the evolving wisdom among contemporary Buddhist teachers on relational mindfulness within the contemplative traditions.
Your tutor Ciara holds a Masters Degree in Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy. An ERYT500, she is Director of the YogaRoom teacher trainings. She is in private practice as a psychotherapist and has taught teachers, therapists and counsellors internationally the therapeutic applications of mindfulness and yoga.
Cost: €240
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Anatomy & Physiology for Yoga

Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th January 2020
Learn the fundamentals of anatomy and physiology as it relates to teaching yoga.
Taught by Connie Walsh, a qualified nurse and yoga therapist who has worked in the area of yoga therapeutics for over 20 years, specialising in yoga for chronic illness, cancer and rehabilitation from injury. Connie has shared her vast knowledge of teaching yoga to students with health vulnerabilities in teacher training programmes nationwide. She is a regular faculty member on our 200-hour and 500-hour trainings.
Counts as 22 hours CPD.
Cost: €220